violence, such as repeated stabbing, raping,
bludgeoning, and then being set aflame. Such
killings are similar to what serial killers do to
unknown, often prostituted, women in the West.
In the West, batterers and wife killers are not
celebrated--they are shunned. If possible, they are
also prosecuted. Hindus in India, and Muslims,
worldwide, who commit honor killings, are viewed
as heroes who have saved their family's honor.
Thus, they feel no shame or remorse. In fact, they
plead "self defense." The girl or woman who has,
allegedly, dishonored their families of origin have
made it impossible for that family to marry off any
of its other children. They will be ostracized
socially and economically and unmercifully bullied
on the streets unless or until the girl or woman
who has "dishonored" them is killed.
Com in g t o you r r ecen t ly pu blish ed book 'An
In cor r ect Fem in ist ...,' begin n in g f r om t h e t it le ?
can you t ell u s m or e abou t it ?
This Memoir describes what life was like in
America for girls in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s
which alone explains how unhappy and how
desperate we all were and how feminist ideas
seemed so liberating and thrilling. We were united
with other women for the first time in our lives
and based on our ideas. We had no knowledge of
feminist work that had preceded us and therefore
had no idea how, in the past, feminists had
disagreed, fought, and shunned their opponents.
We were totally unprepared when this happened
to us or when our own most original ideas were
"borrowed" or stolen by other feminists.
However, I explain, perhaps for the first time, that
there were really three streams that made up the
Second Wave: a civil rights movement, an activist
movement, and the feminist transformation of the
professions. I swam in all three streams. I
belonged to the honorable minority who opposed
pornography,
prostitution,
sexual
slavery,
automatic male custody of children, surrogacy
(which I view as reproductive prostitution). I also

In 2009, I
published my
first academic
work on this
subject in
Middle East
Quarterly,
charting the
specific
differences
between
Western
domestic
violence and
honor
killing/ femicide.
W hile many
insist that honor
killings are like
Western
domestic
violence, this is
not the case.